with real questions and answers. not scripted. peter: no big kickoff rally today. so far all we have got is this very short teaser ad. courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. peter: as usual, white house officials say they don t want to weigh in on elections because of the hatch act. but they are happy to speak about ron desantis florida. lawmakers, republicans in florida, have attacked diversity. they have an attacked inclusion efforts. they have limited the teaching of black history. and they have launched attacks on the lgbtq youth, immigrants, educators and women s reproductive freedom that s what you have seen from lawmakers in florida. desantis is not clearing the feecialtiond the primary field of other trump challengers. glenn youngkin, rumored to be considering a run. his top staffer says glenn youngkin is focused on virginia. anyone who anonymously says otherwise probably isn t as close to the governor as they wan
interview as a contender. todd: the governor will become the latest candidate to throw his hat in the ring on heels of south carolina senator tim scott. ashley: lucas tomlinson has everything you need to know ahead of tonight. good morning. lucas: good morning. this move has been months in the making, now official, florida governor ron desantis will declare he s a 2024 presidential candidate tonight on twitter. here is elon musk with a preview. we will be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and will be for first time something like this is happening on social media and with realtime questions and answers, not scripted. lucas: florida first lady has a video on twitter showing the governor in front of a large american flag backstage with loud applause heard in the distance. they call it fate, in the face of darkness, you see brighter future, faith our best days lay ahead of us. is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth
one of them, the uss cole, it was attacked in we will see fdny fire boat. i was on location on 9/11 to interview the captain of that boat there on 9/11 and helped our first responders. this is really important day and week for our sailors, our marines and coast guard, you will see up and down the streets of new york until may 30th, memorial day weekend. i encourage you to say thank you for your service. events are free, if you want to go on the intrepid, in new york, that will cost some admission, but events will be free. forecast spectacular for next seven days. watch low pressure off the coast
river turn around and start mooring on the east side. janice: u.s.s. cole. beautiful and poignant. flat top, which a tremendous ship and we re excited to see everybody. janice: and the fdny fire boat. leading the way. janice: because my husband is a firefighter. we all know that impressive museum people come to new york city i tell them one of the first things they need to see. that is fantastic. array of activity. honor our his or hers, educate the public. this is all about activities throughout the weekend for fleet week. we start off with a free night of top gun on the flight deck. what could be better hand that. we have activities disney and pixar and broadway performance and marine displays and navy displace. so much throughout the weekend that will be here for all ages. i absolutely encourage people to go to the intrepid museum.org and take a look. on monday finish it up with a
janice: hi, good morning, steve. we re going to talk to officials here in the 7:00 hour and one of my good friends robin who knows ray pfeiffer who died of 9/11 related illnesses a couple years ago. his name is on the wall at point lookout along with all the victims who died on that fateful day almost 20 years ago. we have steel from the world trade center. the north tower that fell. this is one of my favorite memorials. i hope you will stay with us during fox & friends. we have some important things to talk about remembering that fateful day on 9/11 when we lost so many and the world changed. the weather here is spectacular on long island. i think my friend ray pfeiffer who lived in this area has everything to do with the fact that we have beautiful conditions. we re going to go towards 83 today and then the chance for showers and thunderstorms wednesday night into thursday, of course we are going to be at different memorials all week. i believe we are at staten island tomorrow. we